Game
|
Date
|
Winning Team
|
Score
|
Venue
|
Notes
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1
|
November 13, 1875
|
Harvard
|
4g,2t–0
|
Hamilton Park, New Haven
|
Until 1883, goals from a kick ("g") and touchdowns ("t") were tracked separately, and in 1875 and 1876, touchdowns did not count for a score.[3]
|
2
|
November 18, 1876
|
Yale
|
1g–2t
|
Hamilton Park, New Haven
|
[3]
|
|
—
|
|
|
|
|
3
|
November 23, 1878
|
Yale
|
1g–0
|
South End Grounds, Boston
|
Between 1877 and 1882, a touchdown counted for 1/4 of a goal.[3]
|
4
|
November 8, 1879
|
Tie
|
0–0
|
Hamilton Park, New Haven
|
|
5
|
November 20, 1880
|
Yale
|
1g,1t–0
|
South End Grounds, Boston
|
Between 1877 and 1882, a touchdown counted for 1/4 of a goal.[3]
|
6
|
November 12, 1881
|
Yale
|
0–4s
|
Hamilton Park, New Haven
|
Yale was awarded victory on safeties, as, in a tie, the team having 4 or more safeties than the other would lose.[3]
|
7
|
November 25, 1882
|
Yale
|
1g,3t-0
|
Holmes Field, Cambridge
|
Between 1877 and 1882, a touchdown counted for 1/4 of a goal.[3]
|
8
|
November 29, 1883
|
Yale
|
23–2
|
Polo Grounds, New York
|
Match was played on Thursday, Thanksgiving Day
|
9
|
November 22, 1884
|
Yale
|
52–0
|
Yale Field, New Haven
|
|
|
—
|
|
|
|
Harvard banned football in 1885[4]
|
10
|
November 20, 1886
|
Yale
|
29–4
|
Jarvis Field, Cambridge
|
|
11
|
November 24, 1887
|
Yale
|
17–8
|
Polo Grounds, New York
|
Match was played on Thursday, Thanksgiving Day
|
|
—
|
|
|
|
|
12
|
November 23, 1889
|
Yale
|
6–0
|
Hampden Park, Springfield, Massachusetts
|
|
13
|
November 22, 1890
|
Harvard
|
12–6
|
Hampden Park, Springfield, Massachusetts
|
|
14
|
November 21, 1891
|
Yale
|
10–0
|
Hampden Park, Springfield, Massachusetts
|
|
15
|
November 19, 1892
|
Yale
|
6–0
|
Hampden Park, Springfield, Massachusetts
|
Harvard introduced flying wedge formation
|
16
|
November 25, 1893
|
Yale
|
6–0
|
Hampden Park, Springfield, Massachusetts
|
New York Times game preview and lineups[5]
|
17
|
November 24, 1894
|
Yale
|
12–4
|
Hampden Park, Springfield, Massachusetts
|
|
|
—
|
|
|
|
The 1894 game was so violent that the series was suspended for two years[6]
|
|
—
|
|
|
|
|
18
|
November 13, 1897
|
Tie
|
0–0
|
Soldiers Field, Cambridge
|
|
19
|
November 19, 1898
|
Harvard
|
17–0
|
Yale Field, New Haven
|
|
20
|
November 18, 1899
|
Tie
|
0–0
|
Soldiers Field, Cambridge
|
|
21
|
November 24, 1900
|
Yale
|
28–0
|
Yale Field, New Haven
|
|
22
|
November 23, 1901
|
Harvard
|
22–0
|
Soldiers Field, Cambridge
|
|
23
|
November 22, 1902
|
Yale
|
23–0
|
Yale Field, New Haven
|
Crowd of 30,000 saw contest.
|
24
|
November 21, 1903
|
Yale
|
16–0
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
|
25
|
November 19, 1904
|
Yale
|
12–0
|
Yale Field, New Haven
|
|
26
|
November 25, 1905
|
Yale
|
6–0
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
|
27
|
November 24, 1906
|
Yale
|
6–0
|
Yale Field, New Haven
|
|
28
|
November 23, 1907
|
Yale
|
12–0
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
|
29
|
November 21, 1908
|
Harvard
|
4–0
|
Yale Field, New Haven
|
HOF Harvard Coach Percy Haughton allegedly strangled a live bulldog and threw its dead carcass at players in the locker room before the game to motivate his players to victory.[7] However, according to research published by the Los Angeles Times in 2011, it is likely that this story is a myth. According to the research, it is much more probable that the coach strangled a fake bulldog made of papier-mâché.
|
30
|
November 20, 1909
|
Yale
|
8–0
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
|
31
|
November 19, 1910
|
Tie
|
0–0
|
Yale Field, New Haven
|
|
32
|
November 25, 1911
|
Tie
|
0–0
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
|
33
|
November 23, 1912
|
Harvard
|
20–0
|
Yale Field, New Haven
|
|
34
|
November 22, 1913
|
Harvard
|
15–5
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
Electrical World article on The Game[8]
|
35
|
November 21, 1914
|
Harvard
|
15–5
|
Yale Bowl, New Haven
|
Image of The Game [9]
|
36
|
November 20, 1915
|
Harvard
|
41–0
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
|
37
|
November 25, 1916
|
Yale
|
3–6
|
Yale Bowl, New Haven
|
|
|
—
|
|
|
|
Both Harvard and Yale suspended their football programs during World War I.
|
|
—
|
|
|
|
Both Harvard and Yale suspended their football programs during World War I.
|
38
|
November 22, 1919
|
Harvard
|
10–3
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
|
39
|
November 20, 1920
|
Harvard
|
9–0
|
Yale Bowl, New Haven
|
80,000 fans attended[10]
|
40
|
November 19, 1921
|
Harvard
|
10–3
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
|
41
|
November 25, 1922
|
Harvard
|
10–3
|
Yale Bowl, New Haven
|
|
42
|
November 24, 1923
|
Yale
|
13–0
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
|
43
|
November 22, 1924
|
Yale
|
19–6
|
Yale Bowl, New Haven
|
|
44
|
November 21, 1925
|
Tie
|
0–0
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
|
45
|
November 20, 1926
|
Yale
|
12–7
|
Yale Bowl, New Haven
|
|
46
|
November 19, 1927
|
Yale
|
14–0
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
|
47
|
November 24, 1928
|
Harvard
|
17–0
|
Yale Bowl, New Haven
|
|
48
|
November 23, 1929
|
Harvard
|
10–6
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
|
49
|
November 22, 1930
|
Harvard
|
13–0
|
Yale Bowl, New Haven
|
|
50
|
November 21, 1931
|
Yale
|
3–0
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
|
51
|
November 19, 1932
|
Yale
|
19–0
|
Yale Bowl, New Haven
|
Time Magazine article on The Game[11]
|
52
|
November 25, 1933
|
Harvard
|
19–6
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
|
53
|
November 24, 1934
|
Yale
|
14–0
|
Yale Bowl, New Haven
|
|
54
|
November 23, 1935
|
Yale
|
14–7
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
In 1935 Gerald Ford was an assistant coach for Yale[12]
|
55
|
November 21, 1936
|
Yale
|
14–13
|
Yale Bowl, New Haven
|
Game featured 1936 Heisman winner Larry Kelley[13]
|
56
|
November 20, 1937
|
Harvard
|
13–6
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
Game featured 1937 Heisman winner Clint Frank [14]
|
57
|
November 19, 1938
|
Harvard
|
7–0
|
Yale Bowl, New Haven
|
|
58
|
November 25, 1939
|
Yale
|
20–7
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
|
59
|
November 23, 1940
|
Harvard
|
28–0
|
Yale Bowl, New Haven
|
|
60
|
November 22, 1941
|
Harvard
|
14–0
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
|
61
|
November 21, 1942
|
Yale
|
7–3
|
Yale Bowl, New Haven
|
|
|
—
|
|
|
|
While Yale continued its football program during World War II, Harvard suspended theirs - and played no games in 1943 and 1944.
|
|
—
|
|
|
|
While Yale continued its football program during World War II, Harvard suspended theirs - and played no games in 1943 and 1944.
|
62
|
December 1, 1945
|
Yale
|
28–0
|
Yale Bowl, New Haven
|
Harvard did not restart its football program until shortly after VJ-Day, after Yale had already closed its 1945 schedule. It was agreed that Yale would add Harvard at the end of its schedule on December 1 (the only time the two teams played a December game) - with the location being at the Yale Bowl - reversing the tradition in place since 1897 that games in odd years would be played at Harvard's field, while games in even years would be played at Yale. Since the 1945 game, games in odd years would be played at the Yale Bowl and games in even years would be played at Harvard Stadium.
|
63
|
November 23, 1946
|
Yale
|
27–14
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
|
64
|
November 22, 1947
|
Yale
|
31–21
|
Yale Bowl, New Haven
|
|
65
|
November 20, 1948
|
Harvard
|
20–7
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
|
66
|
November 19, 1949
|
Yale
|
29–6
|
Yale Bowl, New Haven
|
Game featured Yale captain Levi Jackson
|
67
|
November 25, 1950
|
Yale
|
14–6
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
|
68
|
November 24, 1951
|
Tie
|
21–21
|
Yale Bowl, New Haven
|
|
69
|
November 22, 1952
|
Yale
|
41–14
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
|
70
|
November 21, 1953
|
Harvard
|
13–0
|
Yale Bowl, New Haven
|
|
71
|
November 20, 1954
|
Harvard
|
13–9
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
|
72
|
November 19, 1955
|
Yale
|
21–7
|
Yale Bowl, New Haven
|
End Ted Kennedy scored Harvard's only touchdown.[15] Down 14–0 in the third quarter, he caught an eight-yard pass from Walt Stahura to complete a 79-yard drive.[16][17][18] Earlier in the game, Kennedy had been unable to hold onto a fourth-down pass in the end zone.[18]
|
73
|
November 24, 1956
|
Yale
|
42–14
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
|
74
|
November 23, 1957
|
Yale
|
54–0
|
Yale Bowl, New Haven
|
|
75
|
November 22, 1958
|
Harvard
|
28–0
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
|
76
|
November 21, 1959
|
Harvard
|
35–6
|
Yale Bowl, New Haven
|
|
77
|
November 19, 1960
|
Yale
|
39–6
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
|
78
|
November 25, 1961
|
Harvard
|
27–0
|
Yale Bowl, New Haven
|
|
79
|
November 24, 1962
|
Harvard
|
14–6
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
|
80
|
November 30, 1963
|
Yale
|
20–6
|
Yale Bowl, New Haven
|
Tim Merrill native of Cambridge, Ohio intercepted a pass that made it possible for Yale's go-ahead score. Game delayed a week after the death of President John F. Kennedy, Harvard '40.
|
81
|
November 21, 1964
|
Harvard
|
18–14
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
|
82
|
November 20, 1965
|
Harvard
|
13–0
|
Yale Bowl, New Haven
|
|
83
|
November 19, 1966
|
Harvard
|
17–0
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
|
84
|
November 25, 1967
|
Yale
|
24–20
|
Yale Bowl, New Haven
|
|
85
|
November 23, 1968
|
Tie
|
29–29
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
The Harvard Student Newspaper printed the title Harvard Beats Yale 29-29, which became the title of a famous 2008 documentary film. This was the final tie in the rivalry, as modern college football rules do not allow tie games.[19][20]
|
86
|
November 22, 1969
|
Yale
|
7–0
|
Yale Bowl, New Haven
|
|
87
|
November 21, 1970
|
Harvard
|
14–12
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
|
88
|
November 20, 1971
|
Harvard
|
35–16
|
Yale Bowl, New Haven
|
|
89
|
November 25, 1972
|
Yale
|
28–17
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
|
90
|
November 24, 1973
|
Yale
|
35–0
|
Yale Bowl, New Haven
|
|
91
|
November 23, 1974
|
Harvard
|
21–16
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
|
92
|
November 22, 1975
|
Harvard
|
10–7
|
Yale Bowl, New Haven
|
|
93
|
November 13, 1976
|
Yale
|
21–7
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
|
94
|
November 12, 1977
|
Yale
|
24–7
|
Yale Bowl, New Haven
|
|
95
|
November 18, 1978
|
Yale
|
35–28
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
|
96
|
November 17, 1979
|
Harvard
|
22–7
|
Yale Bowl, New Haven
|
|
97
|
November 22, 1980
|
Yale
|
14–0
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
|
98
|
November 21, 1981
|
Yale
|
28–0
|
Yale Bowl, New Haven
|
|
99
|
November 20, 1982
|
Harvard
|
45-7
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
Harvard and Yale moved to NCAA Division I-AA; MIT pulled the famous weather balloon prank.
|
100
|
November 19, 1983
|
Harvard
|
16–7
|
Yale Bowl, New Haven
|
|
101
|
November 17, 1984
|
Yale
|
30–27
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
|
102
|
November 23, 1985
|
Yale
|
17–6
|
Yale Bowl, New Haven
|
|
103
|
November 22, 1986
|
Harvard
|
24–17
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
|
104
|
November 21, 1987
|
Harvard
|
14–10
|
Yale Bowl, New Haven
|
|
105
|
November 19, 1988
|
Yale
|
26–17
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
|
106
|
November 18, 1989
|
Harvard
|
37–20
|
Yale Bowl, New Haven
|
|
107
|
November 17, 1990
|
Yale
|
34–19
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
MIT fired a rocket with an MIT banner over the goal post
|
108
|
November 23, 1991
|
Yale
|
23–13
|
Yale Bowl, New Haven
|
|
109
|
November 21, 1992
|
Harvard
|
14–0
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
|
110
|
November 20, 1993
|
Yale
|
33–31
|
Yale Bowl, New Haven
|
|
111
|
November 19, 1994
|
Yale
|
32–13
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
|
112
|
November 18, 1995
|
Harvard
|
22–21
|
Yale Bowl, New Haven
|
|
113
|
November 23, 1996
|
Harvard
|
26–21
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
|
114
|
November 22, 1997
|
Harvard
|
17–7
|
Yale Bowl, New Haven
|
|
115
|
November 21, 1998
|
Yale
|
9–7
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
|
116
|
November 20, 1999
|
Yale
|
24–21
|
Yale Bowl, New Haven
|
|
117
|
November 18, 2000
|
Yale
|
34–24
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
|
118
|
November 17, 2001
|
Harvard
|
35–23
|
Yale Bowl, New Haven
|
|
119
|
November 23, 2002
|
Harvard
|
20–13
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
Images from The Game[21]
|
120
|
November 22, 2003
|
Harvard
|
37–19
|
Yale Bowl, New Haven
|
53,136 fans attended[22]
|
121
|
November 20, 2004
|
Harvard
|
35–3
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
Recap[23] Yale pulled a high-profile prank.
|
122
|
November 19, 2005
|
Harvard
|
30–24 (3OT)
|
Yale Bowl, New Haven
|
|
123
|
November 18, 2006
|
Yale
|
34–13
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
|
124
|
November 17, 2007
|
Harvard
|
37–6
|
Yale Bowl, New Haven
|
|
125
|
November 22, 2008
|
Harvard
|
10–0
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
|
126
|
November 21, 2009
|
Harvard
|
14–10
|
Yale Bowl, New Haven
|
Failed fake punt attempt by Yale on fourth-and-22 at their own 25-yard-line in the closing minutes likely cost the Bulldogs the game.[24]
|
127
|
November 20, 2010
|
Harvard
|
28–21
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
|
128
|
November 19, 2011
|
Harvard
|
45–7
|
Yale Bowl, New Haven
|
Tragic fatal U-Haul crash during tailgate.[25]
Same score as Harvard record-setting 1982 game.
|
129
|
November 17, 2012
|
Harvard
|
34–24
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
|
130
|
November 23, 2013
|
Harvard
|
34–7
|
Yale Bowl, New Haven
|
|
131
|
November 22, 2014
|
Harvard
|
31–24
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
Harvard hosted ESPN's College Gameday.[26]
|
132
|
November 21, 2015
|
Harvard
|
38–19
|
Yale Bowl, New Haven
|
|
133
|
November 19, 2016
|
Yale
|
21-14
|
Harvard Stadium, Boston
|
|
134
|
November 18, 2017
|
Yale
|
24-3
|
Yale Bowl, New Haven
|
|
135
|
November 17, 2018
|
Harvard
|
45–27
|
Fenway Park (Harvard Home), Boston
|
|